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Museum Experience of the Silk Road

2/20/2011

The Penn Museum is hosting an exhibit on artifacts of the old Silk Road. In my World Civ classes I spend a lot of time discussing the economics, the politics and the culture of the Silk Road.

So I'm going to give my students extra credit if they go and experience the exhibit. My honors students really liked the project of going to the museums last year. They may not have liked the presentation but several students went to the Penn Museum and were blown away - which was the point.

You can see a NY Times piece on the exhibit here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/arts/design/21silk.html?_r=1&hp

Burning DVD For Rich/Working on Article for SASS Conference

2/19/2011

Burning the wedding DVDs for Rich, this way he can have a few DVDs for his wife's family.

This weekend I've been working on updating the Camden County College wikipedia page.

Tomorrow I will be working on a paper to present at the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies Conference. It will be on Swedish counterinsurgency in Poland during the 1650s.

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Christopher Gennari, Ph.D is a Full Professor of History at Camden County College.

He received his doctorate in History from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2010.

His Dissertation is titled "Invasion, Insurgency and Intervention: Sweden's Wars in Poland, Prussia and Denmark 1654-1658." And was the first english language monograph on the topic of Charles X and Sweden's military actions from 1654-1660.

The dissertation analyses Sweden's wars during the Second Northern War in which it won the initial war, fought a religiously inspired insurgency against their occupation, and then had to cope with the intervention of other states.

He has published articles on the use of technology in archival research, the Construction of the Suffolk County Vietnam Veterans Memorial and several book reviews for academic journals.

He has presented papers at the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Conferences on Swedish Counterinsurgency during the Second Northern War and on Swedish “Soft Power” during the reign of Charles X Gustav.

He has also presented papers on Soft Power in Game of Thrones at the MAPACA conference, and given a guest lecture on Sweden’s invasion of Poland in 1655 at NYMAS.

Recently he participated in a NEH Grant with the Community College of Philadelphia and the East-West Center – to bring more Asian Studies to Community Colleges.

Museum Experience of the Silk Road

Burning DVD For Rich/Working on Article for SASS Conference

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